February 2012
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“I’m afraid, and I don’t know where to go.”
– Hamza Kashgari, Saudi blogger’s tweets about prophet Muhammad stir Islamists to call for his execution - The Washington Post
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“A conservative a moderate and a liberal walk into a bar. And the bartender goes,...”
– Santorum Super PAC funder Foster Friess (via think-progress)
Conserva-burn!
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“Lawrence O’Donnell will soon have another cancelled show to go along with...”
– Trump’s unhinged attack on Lawrence O’Donnell - HuffPo
O’Donnell responded to Trump’s message and tweeted, “@realDonaldTrump Wrong again. I’ve had more cancelled shows than that.”
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“Running for President of the United States is really one series of humiliations...”
– Michele Bachmann Cracks Jokes At CPAC 2012
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Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March -... →
Listen to the Obama Campaign’s Soundtrack - WSJ →
President Obama‘s re-election campaign is today releasing the 29 songs that will play at rallies, speeches and other events in 2012.
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CNN suspends Martin; not Loesch, Erickson -... →
With its decision to suspend political contributor Roland Martin today for controversial statements he made on Twitter, CNN seems to have suggested that controversial comments made recently by other contributors — namely Dana Loesch and Erick Erickson — do not warrant the same punishment.
On her radio show, Loesch championed U.S. Marines for urinating on dead Taliban soldiers and said that she...
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“You can follow someone on Twitter, friend them on Facebook, quote or be quoted...”
– David Carr (via rubenfeld)
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43% Say Random Choices From Phone Book Better Than... →
With positive ratings for Congress at an all-time low, it may come as no surprise that a plurality of voters nationwide believes a group of people randomly selected from a telephone book would do a better job than the current legislators.
h/t @ThinkProgress
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“My favorite line of Mrs. Obama is when a journalist asked her if she thought her...”
– Fashion “genius” KARL LAGERFELD, in the pages of Metro, which includes this statement from FLOTUS’s spokeswoman: “Mrs. Obama never made that statement.”
Oh, so he’s not only a fashion genius — he’s a racist, too.
(via Metro)
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“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike...”
– Alen Cohen
Mariko says some things that make me roll my eyes at yoga, but this one stuck with me all through class. (via mar-see-ah)
“12345”
– The password Syrian President Bashar Assad apparently had for some of his email accounts, which were hacked by Anonymous. (via villagevoice)
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Prop 8 declared unconstitutional: What you need to...
newsweek:
ruthoutspoken:
Here’s the breakdown of what you need to know:
Today’s ruling: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 vote that Prop 8 is not constitutional. This affirms Judge Vaughn Walker’s earlier ruling that Prop. 8 violated the U.S. Constitution by denying rights to a certain group of people.
“Although the Constitution permits communities to enact most laws they...
“You know, the Redskins suck. I’m tired of watching everyone else in the...”
– Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry took to Twitter while watching the Super Bowl.
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“And to all the folks who are here, don’t let your robots wander off...”
– Pres. Obama, today, speaking at the White House Science Fair.
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“There was a lot riding on that particular race in Nevada and it was interesting,...”
– Trump says he deserves credit for Romney’s decisive Nevada win - The Hill
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"Money is not speech"
lessig:
I’m a critic of Citizens United. I’m a supporter of an amendment to reverse it (among other things). I’m even (sort of) a supporter of an amendment to declare “corporations are not persons.” But I am not a supporter of any amendment that purports to declare “Money is not speech.”
My former dean, Geof Stone, explains why in this piece in the Huffington Post. Stone’s work as a First...
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THANK YOU!
Passed a HUGE milestone over the weekend. Thank you everybody!
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“A woman at Romney’s Grand Junction rally asked press to tell camp’s...”
– @PhilipRucker
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“Recently, Berinsky [YouGov’s Adam Berinsky] polled the question again, focusing...”
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The Birthers are Back in Town
“NBC fumbled and the NFL lied because a performer known as M.I.A. felt it...”
– The Parents Television Council would like you to know that it does not approve of M.I.A. flipping them the bird last night. Also, nobody cares what the PTC says. (via shortformblog)
LOL. (via michaelhayes)
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“You ask me, [Obama] should have put that mother-f*!cker on ice and defrosted his...”
– Samuel L. Jackson on Osama bin Laden - @davecatanese
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Is it time for political journalists to change...
muckrack:
A recent New York Times article revealed that politicians are using Twitter to monitor the press, raising the question should political journalists change their behavior on Twitter?
The article, written by Ashley Parker of The New York Times, describes how Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign staff uses Twitter to not only engage with constituents but also to monitor reporters. Michael...
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